“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

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“You have to know the past to understand the present.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“It is only a novel . . . or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and...”

― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“I can think. I can wait. I can fast.”

― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love; and very lively hopes of Mr. Bingley's heart were entertained.”

― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“For I can suffer, and be still;And come he slow, or come he fast,It is but Death who comes at last.”

― Walter Scott, Marmion

“By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.”

― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.”

― Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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